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CBS Consumer Products Teams with CafePress

CBS Consumer Products Teams with CafePress CBS Consumer Products and CafePress, which specializes in user-designed apparel and gifts, have signed a worldwide licensing agreement that allows TV fans to design and sell authorized show merchandise from CBS’s television library of more than 180 shows. Based on an extensive portfolio of properties that range from current primetime hits including the CSI and NCIS franchises, Survivor, and 90210—to classic shows under the Television City licensing banner such as Twilight Zone, Brady Bunch, and Jericho—the partnership will allow consumers to customize their own apparel, drinkware, hoseware, and stationery/office products. The deal also includes the Star Trek franchise as well as the upcoming feature film, Beastly, from CBS Films.

Products will be available on Cafepress.com in late summer. Merchandise in the apparel category will include T-shirts, sweatshirts, hoodies, tank tops, underwear, hats/caps, baby bodysuits, and bags and totes. In the stationery/office category, consumers will find a wide range of posters, stickers, buttons, magnets, mouse pads, calendars, journals, and greeting cards. Household items will include aprons, clocks, coasters, license plate frames, and drinkware products such as mugs and water bottles.

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